Five new species of Entomobrya Rondani, 1861 (Collembola, Entomobryidae) from sacred forests of Juniperus tibetica near Lhasa (NW China)

Abstract

The taxonomic identification of Collembola collected from two plant species, Juniperus tibetica and Rosa serica, in two sacred juniper forests near Lhasa (NW China), has allowed us to describe five new species of Entomobrya Rondani, 1861.Only 10 species of the genus Entomobrya have previously been recorded from China, and only one species (E. huangi Chen & Ma, 1998) from Tibet.